ok i will do that sorry, the controls icon looks like a keyboard icon, when i get a chance i will post. thank you for your help

I don't think Tomb Raider supports more than two joystick buttons. Here's a passage from the readme:

1Q.	I can't define all the keys on my GamePads and/or Joysticks. Why not ?
2
3A.	Tomb Raider was originally designed to be played with a keyboard on the
4	PC. With the increase in popularity of GamePads and Joysticks on the PC
5	we have included support for many of these. Please refer to the manual
6	for further details. Over the coming weeks, we will be evaluating a range
7	of new GamePads and Joysticks and if the demand is there, we'll release a
8	small patch to accomodate them. Keep an eye out on the WWW.TOMBRAIDER.COM
9	web site.

I have worked around the limitation by using the DOSBox mapper to assign TR's control keys to joystick buttons, which worked perfectly. Don't forget to set "buttonwrap=false" in dosbox.conf when trying this.

For me it supports 4 buttons

Ah, maybe i did the config before the "buttonwrap" function was added, or i did something wrong. I'll have to check it out again, didn't play the game in a while.